It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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